AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6970 X2
2.703 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+236%
9.098 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2022
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1552 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
1536
Shading Units
2560
96
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
28.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
130W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Antilles
GPU Name
GA106
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
12 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.6
